Tuesday, February 21, 2006
"Reference Tool On Web Finds Fans, Censors" i.e. members of the Chinese government ought to be shot for their inadequacy to serve their people
p. 2: "To many educated in China, these governing principles of Wikipedia -- objectivity in content, equality among users, the importance of consensus -- were relatively new concepts. Yuan said he consulted the work of philosopher John Rawls and economist Friedrich Hayek to better understand how a free community could organize itself and 'produce order from chaos.'
'We had heard of these ideas, but they really didn't have much to do with our lives,' said Yuan, now a computer programmer. 'In school, we were taught an official point of view, not a neutral point of view. And we didn't learn much about how to cooperate with people who had different opinions.'"
'We had heard of these ideas, but they really didn't have much to do with our lives,' said Yuan, now a computer programmer. 'In school, we were taught an official point of view, not a neutral point of view. And we didn't learn much about how to cooperate with people who had different opinions.'"
